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Search Resultsfor cosas... aligned with the councillors. So within this area there was a conflict between the, among the students and pass, students organisation, PASO and COSAS. At the very same time there was also the taxi violence. So Vosloorus became a hot bed area, because many people were running towards ... Your son was a member of COSAS. Did he ... (intervention) --- Yes, he was a member of COSAS. ... of this conflict it became known that Mr Skune Tembisile Maarman was a police informer. Various actions on his part confirmed this fact. At a Cosas meeting chaired by Applicant a decision was taken to kill Mr Maarman. This was in line with the call at the time by the anti-apartheid ... MR DU PLESSIS: Your Honour, he was one of the main figures in COSAS in Port Elizabeth. He was also responsible for inciting and politicisation of the black youth here in the black areas and also in the surrounding areas such as Uitenhage even as far as East London. "... during the course of 1986 I took part in the kidnapping of the Secretary of Cosas, White Mohapi, of Pahameng, Bloemfontein. During this incident, which occurred during the 1986 student uprisings, I was accompanied by Warrant Officer Tsoametsi, Sergeant Mamome, Constable Mtyala ..." took her, I think there were about 12 of them who were arrested who were members of this Parents, Student, Teachers Organisation and the Chairman of COSAS was also arrested during that time. We use to go there. They tortured them, but they did not torture them much, but they kept on saying to my ... MR MOSE: No, he disappeared in 1983. He was at Philemon High School. This was during the COSAS time, on the thirty first of October in 1983. MR SELEPE: Thank you. Basically I was the member of COSAS during 1983 ... MS COLERIDGE: I just want to place on record, Chairperson, that I was informed that there was some form of coincidence in relation to COSAS members being detained. The first incident occurred on the 14th of May, March, sorry, March 86 and COSAS members were detained in Witbank on that particular ... Firstly as a member of COSAS, the Congress of South African Students, also as a member of the Soweto Youth Congress which later developed together with other youth organisations throughout the country to establish what was called the South African Youth Congress and later as a member of the ANC ... MRS KOKI: He was a member of COSAS. ... submitted evidence to him and that was the end of the story, everything went quiet. Another point I would like to mention was the vendetta against COSAS. COSAS, the Congress of South African Students, had a membership of over a million students and became absolutely a focal point in the ... ... At that time the Gagaza residents organisation had just been formed. The Congress of South African Students also had just been formed. When Cosas was formed at Faith Mission I met Bimbo and Jingo. I already knew Fenjana and I was very close to him. ... disperse, you cannot launch COSAS at this school. We are not going to allow this. It was one member from the vigilante group. We didn't know many of them because they weren't from this township, all of them. MR MATJILA: In 1985 I met with Cosas members singing at school. It was the first time I supported them. I joined the Cosas organisation. They killed one boy in 1985. Things went on. In 1986, it was in December, we were attending a night vigil on 19th Avenue at Jingles Magoti's house. Whilst ... As I grew up, we were six in our family, I was the first one to have a political awareness. That made me one of the first one to bring COSAS here in Port Elizabeth. After that I went to study in Transkei. From there I came back to Port Elizabeth because COSAS took a decision that the youth must ... ... Is it also not correct that Pebco formed a constituent of UDF which was the umbrella body, there were other radical political organisations like Cosas and Cosatu which had radical members? So, eliminating a specific grouping like Pebco leaders would have been inconsequential or futile. Would ... was this conflict because of a political difference. As I was a member of PASO, what would happen, we were ill-treated in school with the member of COSAS under the ANC at that ... Among the organisations I represented were the African National Congress, the PAC, the South African Youth Revolutionary Council, AZAPO, SASO, BPC, COSAS, UDF, SWAPO, MDM and many others. NNR BATYI: He was a member of the ANC, COSAS. |